The Joint Committee on Finance voted Thursday to increase borrowing by $732.2 million under the state’s Environmental Improvement Fund, which includes the clean water fund and safe drinking water loan programs.

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The bill comes as GOP legislative leaders have cast doubt on the future of the state’s Knowles-Nelson Stewardship program.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that the Catholic Charities Bureau in Superior doesn’t have to pay unemployment tax to Wisconsin.

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Southern Wisconsin has been seeing some of the worst air quality in the nation Wednesday as smoke from Canadian wildfires continues to blanket much of the state.

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Enbridge's proposed Line 5 tunnel project would harm water and wetlands. But a draft environmental review released Friday by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers found most environmental effects would be short-lived.

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A lawsuit against a small northern Wisconsin town seeks to overturn a local ban on wake surfing, saying the regulation is illegal and unconstitutional.

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State and local officials celebrated the grand opening of a roughly $28 million dock restoration project in Superior on Wednesday, allowing one company to expand its operations.

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A proposal to hold Wisconsin’s inland trout opener a month earlier is reeling in support from the state’s conservation community.

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Gov. Tony Evers announced Tuesday that the Wisconsin Department of Health Services has finalized a regulation that aims to protect more kids from lead poisoning.

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The Clark County Sheriff’s Office seized more than 160 roosters and hens from an alleged cockfighting operation Thursday, according to an animal welfare group.

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Manure runoff from a dairy farm in Monroe County has caused hundreds of fish kills in nearby waterways, according to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

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Summers have been heating up across the country and Wisconsin is no exception, according to a new analysis from the group Climate Central.

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Two men police believe to be Venezuelan gang members have been charged with trying to steal money from an ATM in Superior. 

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More than 200 people have signed an open letter to the Ashland School Board expressing concern over a complaint filed against one of its members. 

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Senate Republicans narrowly passed a bill Thursday that allows Wisconsin’s only private water utility to access federal funds for lead line replacement as Democrats pressed for state action amid cuts under the Trump administration.

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The Environmental Protection Agency awarded more than $12.4 million in brownfield grants Friday to Wisconsin communities to clean up and redevelop contaminated sites.

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Gov. Tony Evers is asking the Trump administration to designate Douglas County as an underutilized area to help businesses compete for federal contracts and weather the upcoming Blatnik Bridge replacement.

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Wisconsin residents and environmental advocates say the EPA's plans to weaken drinking water standards for PFAS will harm public health. But water groups say it gives more time to comply.

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Federal environmental regulators and a Canadian energy firm say data doesn’t support a northern Wisconsin tribe’s claims that rerouting an oil and gas pipeline will violate water quality standards on its reservation.

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We Energies is building new gas-fired power plants to meet growing energy demand that largely stems from data centers. As developers pursue data centers in Wisconsin, that’s raising concerns about environmental impacts tied to their operations.

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